The Art of Problem Solving is an online self-teaching maths website with a really strong focus on curriculum quality. So if the kid likes maths, you can let them learn more of it!
Here's one discussion of 9 year olds using the sites successfully.
I run an instance of Sandstorm, which is software you can install on a Linux server that lets you run other apps. Some features:
* One-click installs of any of 47 apps, like WeKan (similar to Trello) and Davros (similar to Dropbox) and Etherpad (which you probably already know about) and Piwik (similar to Google Analytics).
* Total self-hostability, with auto-configured free HTTPS certificates and dynamic DNS if you want.
* Security sandboxing of the apps against each other and away from the Internet, so malicious apps can't leak your data back to the app's author.
* A way to "share" an instance of any app, like on Google Docs.
* Total open source-ness.
Admittedly, I'm one of its authors too. So feel free to take this with a grain of salt. But I do use it every single day.
Also if your friends don't want to self-host, but want to use the same apps as you, the Sandstorm.io company runs a hosting service.
Getting more eyeballs on your code is a marketing problem. So:
* Give us here a link to your code, and
* Make it easy to run your code.
* Then, you can try to reach people who care about that problem domain and tell them to use your code.
To make it easy to run the app, I suggest you create a package for Sandstorm, which is an open source project that makes web apps easy & secure to run. I work on the project, so feel free to decide I'm biased! But do take a look at https://apps.sandstorm.io/ and see how easy it is.
You can reach me (for packaging help) at community@sandstorm.io and find our packaging tutorial here: https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/l...
Only problem having the source code does not mean you can actually understand it. A lot of open source code is obfuscated, sometimes I'm wondering if its deliberate
The GPL handles this by requesting the "preferred form for modification." Consider reading the GPL sometime; it's a really well-written document that considers a lot of these issues.
YouTube has a standard DMCA complaints procedure. I recommend that Yoon Mi-rae and the label follow that process, partly because it actually works which is great in this case, and partly to give Sony a taste of their own medicine.
(Note that I have a bunch of experience with the take-down process, including participating in an EFF lawsuit ~10 years ago; see https://www.eff.org/document/d....)
The Slashdot summary is confusing, as is the eweek.com headline. Reading the article, it is clear that it is about the code that powers the official Python interpreter, AKA CPython, AKA/usr/bin/python. When I clicked the link, I thought Coverity had surveyed the entire world of open source Python code and discovered that Python programmers as a whole publish higher quality code than people who e.g. program in Ruby. That's not what the article's about.
It'd be great if the headline in Slashdot were to be fixed to say, "Python interpreter has fewer code defects compared to other open source C programs, says Coverity."
The laptop was mis-priced due to a bug in Dell's system, one of the engineers on the project tells me. It's now $1449 , as you can see at http://www.dell.com/us/soho/p/xps-13-linux/pd .
Just so you know, five years ago, a Dutch judge ruled that Creative Commons licenses are enforceable. See here: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5823 . This is the Adam Curry case from 2006, for those who follow the history of such things. There was also a later scenario in 2009 that he also won.
In late February 2006, Adam sued the Dutch tabloid Weekend for reprinting photos from his Flickr page and publishing details about his daughter. The photos were released under a version of the Creative Commons license that forbids commercial use and requires acknowledgement, but the tabloid printed a few of them without contacting Curry.
The verdict of the lawsuit did not award Curry any damages, but did forbid the tabloid from reprinting the photos in the future, and set a fine of 1,000€ for each subsequent violation by the tabloid. It was one of the first times the license was tested in a court.
In May 2009, Curry posted on his blog information about a different Dutch tabloid publishing another Creative Commons licenced photo from Curry's Flickr account and Curry's attempt to apply Creative Commons license requirements. The publisher settled without a trial on Curry's terms.
At the time of his arrest, Dmitry Sklyarov was a 27-year-old Russian citizen, Ph.D. student, cryptographer and father of two small children (a 2-1/2 year old son, and a 3-month-old daughter).
Dmitry helped create the Advanced eBook Processor (AEBPR) software for his Russian employer Elcomsoft. According to the company's website, the software permits eBook owners to translate from Adobe's secure eBook format into the more common Portable Document Format (PDF). The software only works on legitimately purchased eBooks. It has been used by blind people to read otherwise-inaccessible PDF user's manuals, and by people who want to move an eBook from one computer to another (just like anyone can move a music CD from the home player to a portable or car).
Dmitry was arrested July 17, 2001 in Las Vegas, NV, at the behest of Adobe Systems, according to the DOJ complaint, and charged with distributing a product designed to circumvent copyright protection measures (the AEBPR). He was eventually released on $50,000 bail and restricted to California. In December 2001, was permitted to return home to Russia with his family. Charges have not been dropped, and he remains subject to prosecution in the US.
Although Dmitry is home now, the case against Elcomsoft is continuing (to the detriment of the company), Dmitry's actions in Russia are controlled by a US court, and DMCA is still the law (to the detriment of everyone). This site will carry updates as they come...
It's actually baked into the curriculum -- it's not missing. If you read the announcement website, you can see that it's really about teaching how to contribute, not just be a passive user.
We had 51 applicants for 20 slots. We expanded it to the 30 most enthusiastic people.
In my late-night Slashdot writing, I forgot to mention this the summary: Yuvi Masory and Felice Ford played a huge role in organizing the workshop. Yuvi and Felice handled all the logistics, getting all the details down to a T -- that included asking Github for sponsorship, staying up late the night before to organize the students into groups, reserving rooms, and earning the support of Penn computer science.
The workshop was just a pipe dream until Yuri and Felice nailed down all the pieces. My hat's off to them!
Further thanks go out to John Stumpo, Jonathan Simpson, and Zach Goldberg, who all came in from out-of-down to help these students get their feet wet in open source.
This is part of the OpenHatch project, an ongoing effort to help new contributors get involved in open source. If you want to stay in touch with OpenHatch, join us on #openhatch on irc.freenode.net or follow the links on our "About" page, http://openhatch.org/about/.
Use a tag to mark certain bugs as "good for newcomers." GNOME has been doing this for years, and a bunch of other projects do it, too. If you want you can get them included in the OpenHatch index.
Make sure your web page says you want help! If you want to make this really easy, just add a big button for prospective helpers to click. One way to do that is to grab our big green button.
The volunteer opportunity finder, a listing of free software projects' "bitesized" buts, organized by project, language, or type of help wanted (e.g. writing documentation). We index thousands of bugs from hundreds of projects.
The "I want to help!" button, a way to express interest in helping a project even if you don't know what to do. For an example, check out the people who want to help GNU social.
Project pages like Gally's, where existing contributors have written about what kind of help they want.
If you want to work on a project which has contributors in your area (maybe you want to get together for a hackathon, or to ask questions about how something in the code works), check out the ubiquitous People Map. You can see everyone on the site or browse by project or skill.
OpenHatch is itself free software, and we have a small and growing volunteer contributor base. (-:
We are contacting project leads. I'm reaching out to my friends and the projects they're working on, and blogging about this stuff on Planet Debian (since I'm a Developer on Debian).
http://openhatch.org/wiki/Bug_trackers is where we ask that project leads write about their bug trackers so we can import them into openhatch.org/search/. We're trying to find more projects that label bugs as "bitesize."
On project pages, we're hoping that the people who add projects to their profiles follow the link and leave a note. Maybe we could nudge people with a bigger message, asking them to do that?
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The Art of Problem Solving is an online self-teaching maths website with a really strong focus on curriculum quality. So if the kid likes maths, you can let them learn more of it!
Here's one discussion of 9 year olds using the sites successfully.
I run an instance of Sandstorm, which is software you can install on a Linux server that lets you run other apps. Some features:
* One-click installs of any of 47 apps, like WeKan (similar to Trello) and Davros (similar to Dropbox) and Etherpad (which you probably already know about) and Piwik (similar to Google Analytics).
* Total self-hostability, with auto-configured free HTTPS certificates and dynamic DNS if you want.
* Security sandboxing of the apps against each other and away from the Internet, so malicious apps can't leak your data back to the app's author.
* A way to "share" an instance of any app, like on Google Docs.
* Total open source-ness.
Admittedly, I'm one of its authors too. So feel free to take this with a grain of salt. But I do use it every single day.
Also if your friends don't want to self-host, but want to use the same apps as you, the Sandstorm.io company runs a hosting service.
Hi anonymous person,
Getting more eyeballs on your code is a marketing problem. So:
* Give us here a link to your code, and
* Make it easy to run your code.
* Then, you can try to reach people who care about that problem domain and tell them to use your code.
To make it easy to run the app, I suggest you create a package for Sandstorm, which is an open source project that makes web apps easy & secure to run. I work on the project, so feel free to decide I'm biased! But do take a look at https://apps.sandstorm.io/ and see how easy it is.
You can reach me (for packaging help) at community@sandstorm.io and find our packaging tutorial here: https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/l...
Best of luck!
Only problem having the source code does not mean you can actually understand it. A lot of open source code is obfuscated, sometimes I'm wondering if its deliberate
The GPL handles this by requesting the "preferred form for modification." Consider reading the GPL sometime; it's a really well-written document that considers a lot of these issues.
YouTube has a standard DMCA complaints procedure. I recommend that Yoon Mi-rae and the label follow that process, partly because it actually works which is great in this case, and partly to give Sony a taste of their own medicine.
Here is the link: https://support.google.com/you...
(Note that I have a bunch of experience with the take-down process, including participating in an EFF lawsuit ~10 years ago; see https://www.eff.org/document/d... .)
The Slashdot summary is confusing, as is the eweek.com headline. Reading the article, it is clear that it is about the code that powers the official Python interpreter, AKA CPython, AKA /usr/bin/python. When I clicked the link, I thought Coverity had surveyed the entire world of open source Python code and discovered that Python programmers as a whole publish higher quality code than people who e.g. program in Ruby. That's not what the article's about.
It'd be great if the headline in Slashdot were to be fixed to say, "Python interpreter has fewer code defects compared to other open source C programs, says Coverity."
> 165 million years ago
Can't tell if typo or actually meta-trolling about science.
The laptop was mis-priced due to a bug in Dell's system, one of the engineers on the project tells me. It's now $1449 , as you can see at http://www.dell.com/us/soho/p/xps-13-linux/pd .
Can the title here please be fixed?
It exists. It's called CC+ .
More information: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus
It's not actively promoted by CC, but if you read that page you'll see exactly how it works.
-- a former software engineer at Creative Commons.
This was actually a preimage attack -- that is, I intentionally created a collision for 0x70096AD1.
No birthday paradox required. I looped through the entire key space. It takes, as written in the article, less than a few hours on a regular netbook.
The website in question should enable SSL so that sysadmins in the middle can't monkey around with blocking sites based on their content.
For sale:
Space suit,
never worn.
(Hat-tip to Ernest H.)
Just so you know, five years ago, a Dutch judge ruled that Creative Commons licenses are enforceable. See here: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5823 . This is the Adam Curry case from 2006, for those who follow the history of such things. There was also a later scenario in 2009 that he also won.
Summary from the Wikipedia article:
Mozilla might want to add more tracking of its users.
And some people wonder why Debian wants permission to distribute modified versions of Firefox.
I run Iceweasel.
At the time of his arrest, Dmitry Sklyarov was a 27-year-old Russian citizen, Ph.D. student, cryptographer and father of two small children (a 2-1/2 year old son, and a 3-month-old daughter).
Dmitry helped create the Advanced eBook Processor (AEBPR) software for his Russian employer Elcomsoft. According to the company's website, the software permits eBook owners to translate from Adobe's secure eBook format into the more common Portable Document Format (PDF). The software only works on legitimately purchased eBooks. It has been used by blind people to read otherwise-inaccessible PDF user's manuals, and by people who want to move an eBook from one computer to another (just like anyone can move a music CD from the home player to a portable or car).
Dmitry was arrested July 17, 2001 in Las Vegas, NV, at the behest of Adobe Systems, according to the DOJ complaint, and charged with distributing a product designed to circumvent copyright protection measures (the AEBPR). He was eventually released on $50,000 bail and restricted to California. In December 2001, was permitted to return home to Russia with his family. Charges have not been dropped, and he remains subject to prosecution in the US.
Although Dmitry is home now, the case against Elcomsoft is continuing (to the detriment of the company), Dmitry's actions in Russia are controlled by a US court, and DMCA is still the law (to the detriment of everyone). This site will carry updates as they come...
Source: http://www.freesklyarov.org/ (for those who don't remember 2001's Defcon incident)
It's actually baked into the curriculum -- it's not missing. If you read the announcement website, you can see that it's really about teaching how to contribute, not just be a passive user.
We had 51 applicants for 20 slots. We expanded it to the 30 most enthusiastic people.
:D
You followed me all the way from California, back to Slashdot.... I will put it on the list soon! (Or you can, probably, given this Slashdot post.)
In my late-night Slashdot writing, I forgot to mention this the summary: Yuvi Masory and Felice Ford played a huge role in organizing the workshop. Yuvi and Felice handled all the logistics, getting all the details down to a T -- that included asking Github for sponsorship, staying up late the night before to organize the students into groups, reserving rooms, and earning the support of Penn computer science.
The workshop was just a pipe dream until Yuri and Felice nailed down all the pieces. My hat's off to them!
Further thanks go out to John Stumpo, Jonathan Simpson, and Zach Goldberg, who all came in from out-of-down to help these students get their feet wet in open source.
Hey all! I'm going to be working on organizing more, similar events going forward.
If you want to stay on top of that, or try to organize an event near you, join the mailing list for OpenHatch events: http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/events
This is part of the OpenHatch project, an ongoing effort to help new contributors get involved in open source. If you want to stay in touch with OpenHatch, join us on #openhatch on irc.freenode.net or follow the links on our "About" page, http://openhatch.org/about/.
Two suggestions for you on that front.
Yikes, so we have. Fixing it now, hopefully....
Fixed!
Erm, "bitesized bugs", not "bitesized buts". What an embarrassing typo (but I guess it could have been worse.)
OpenHatch, a website I help run, exists to help people find ways they can contribute to free and open source software.
(It was covered on Slashdot a few weeks ago.)
We have a few things that you might like:
If you want to work on a project which has contributors in your area (maybe you want to get together for a hackathon, or to ask questions about how something in the code works), check out the ubiquitous People Map. You can see everyone on the site or browse by project or skill.
OpenHatch is itself free software, and we have a small and growing volunteer contributor base. (-:
Let us know what you do or don't like!
We are contacting project leads. I'm reaching out to my friends and the projects they're working on, and blogging about this stuff on Planet Debian (since I'm a Developer on Debian).
http://openhatch.org/wiki/Bug_trackers is where we ask that project leads write about their bug trackers so we can import them into openhatch.org/search/. We're trying to find more projects that label bugs as "bitesize."
On project pages, we're hoping that the people who add projects to their profiles follow the link and leave a note. Maybe we could nudge people with a bigger message, asking them to do that?
Money can reduce volunteer activity, crowding it out with a smaller pool of paid developers.
http://ideas.repec.org/p/prt/dpaper/3_2009.html is one of many papers on this topic.